001All right. Good. All right. Good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. We'll call the meeting to order. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Somewhere floating around is a visitor's guest list just outside the door. Just outside the door. If you haven't signed it, please do sign that on your way out tonight. And real quick, bear with me. We got to do a couple of housekeeping things here. The regular session of the Cascade School District board of directors will now convene at Cascade High School um what is this? District office and via Zoom. The laws governing boards of education require that their
002work be done where the public can observe their actions. Please remember this is the board's meeting for the public to observe. Others may participate only with the approval of the board. With that being said, Mr. Drill, do we want to do the um announcements here or do you want to go and do approval of uh last month's um you've got approval of minutes, but you can do it either way. It's up to you. Let's go ahead and do your thing first and then we'll just back into our meeting and do the rest of it. Okay. Well, it is is my thing, but I'm turning it over to Mr. Mr. and it's going to be his thing. It is now your thing. They are his students. Thank you for inviting us. Um, once again, uh, you
003have chosen to honor our valictorian saludiatorans this year and we have an amazing group behind me. Um, this year we have 10 valadictorians and two saludiatorans representing the class of 2025 and they are outstanding human beings. So, uh, we're going to introduce them one by one and have them talk for just a second. They are going to love that. Okay, I know that they're super excited about that. Uh, but hearing from them just for a few minutes would be great. And uh, once again, thank you for honoring them. So, first saludiatoran is Lily Picket. Hi, thank you for having me. I'm here with my parents, Zach and Stacy Picket. I plan on going to Southern Oregon University where I plan to run track and field. Um, one consistent positive experience I've had at Cascade has
004been the track and field team. It's been like my sport for like the past five years and I just love it. So, thank you. Our second saludiatoran is Cash Butler. Thanks for having us. Um, I'm here with my parents Russell and Christy Butler. I plan to go to WAMIT where I can g where I'm going to continue my football career and study biology where I then plan to go to OSU and become a veterinarian. Some things that have cascade have helped me like prepare for the next step is my sports. Just all the help from my sports and being on track and field and football and wrestling and swimming and a bunch of other ones have all helped me prepare. and also being in leadership and teaching me how to lead this the class and
005run assemblies and also like the budgeting and all of that goes into leadership has helped me a lot and there's a lot to be thankful for Cascade. Incidentally, Cash is our ASB president this year. Um, okay. Our first saludiatoran is Lily Aer. Mr. Mr. Rastory, sorry. Sorry. Hi, thanks for having me. I'm here with all my family, too many to name. Um, I plan to go. Nice job. I plan to go to Corbin to pursue elementary education. And one positive thing at Cascade has been the track and field team, the community, and the coaches, and the positive experiences I've had. Thank you. Missson, we already have dibs on her to come back in peers and teacher. Abs. We've done that before, Mr. Drone. I know. Absolutely. Uh, so our second validictorian is Lucy Hoover Mole.
006Thank you for having me. I'm here with my dad, Kevin Mole. And next year I plan on going to Shemecha to pursue nursing. And one positive experience I've had here at Cascade is the AP psychology class with Mr. Medlock. Our next valadictorian, Kyle Maine. Hello. Uh I'm here with my dad Jesse, my my mother Pam, and my sister Jessica. Um, I'm going to go to Shemecka and go get my prerequisites done before transferring to a 4-year university to go pursue accounting. Honestly, one of the like most positive experiences I had with um within Cascade is really the teachers and especially the advanced placement teachers because they always really push you to like to not I wouldn't say to the limits, but like making sure that you're doing the right things and like actually preparing you
007for uh life and college education. So, Okay, our next valadictorian is Samantha Leath. Hi, thank you for having me today. I brought my mom, Michelle Picket. My plan for next year is to go to Oregon State to study sociology to become a social worker. My most positive experience at Cascade is just the office staff. They're always so welcoming and there for you and you can text anybody and that's Yeah. Okay, our next valictorian is JC Nixon. Hi, I'm here with my parents Tamara and Jason and my brother Kane. Um, next year I'm going to Corm University to pursue a bachelor's of science and nursing. And I think the thing that's been most positive at Cascade for me is the AP program. The teachers are great and I can already see how the um credits are
008already affecting my college. So, it's been great. Very good. Uh Blake Wulmer is our next validator. Blake. Hi, my name is Blake Wulmer. I'm here with Dan Jenny Phyllis and Izzy Wulmer. Um I'm going to OSU for nuclear engineering and I'm also going into the marching band. I think a thing that has really prepared me is the academics and also the amazing band program that is going to help me in the next steps at OSU. Okay. And another validictorian is Ananiah Johnston. Hello. I'm here with my mom and dad, Beth and Chris Johnston. Um, I'm going to George Fox University where I plan to major in psychology and minor in criminal justice. I would say a program that really has been influential at my time here at Cascade has been AVID. I mean, great community,
009great people, and just the AVID teachers that I've had over the course of the four years have really been dedicated to helping the students like get to college and like showing us career opportunities and stuff like that. So, I'm grateful and thankful for all of them. We have three more valadictorians who are unable to be here tonight. Their names are Benjamin Oliva, um Allison Coors, and Leila Morett. So again, you know, one of the things I want you to think about is this group is an outstanding group. And I love the diversity you've got. You've got people accing different things that make a point to make their experience positive here at Cascade, whether it's AP classes or AVID or athletics or the staff in general. Um we really try to find lots of different ways
010to connect with kids and our kids fly because they've got great people supporting them. So again, uh thank you so much for inviting us. Um this group is now standing group. We're going to miss them sorely. Um we're going to find uh some new kids to try to replace them, but you just don't replace kids. You just you just become a little different. So this group's an amazing group. So we're thankful for them. So Mr. Rasmmanson. Um the board uh would like to say thank you. I'm sure they can do that on their own. However, there is also cake out there. We're going to we're going to pause, Mr. Chair, if that's okay. Pause. Yes. Um we're going to pause the meeting and we've got cake for everybody out here. Um family and friends, please
011feel free to grab a piece of cake, come back back in here. You don't want to be in here, out there, or even outside. Uh that's totally up to you. But we what we wanted to say at Cascade School District is thank you. Uh I I saw most of you the other night at the top 20 dinner. Um but to have once again some outstanding young folks, right? It just heartens me to know that we're in good hands. We're in really good hands with with young students, young people like this to take care of us. And I'm really hopeful for that because, you know, I don't think Social Security is going to be there for me. So I need them to come up with really cool ideas to figure out a way to take care
012of me when I get old. Um but the reality is it's just fantastic. that our community thrives on this kind of thing. This is why we are who we are, right? After 30 years of being in this community, working in this community, coaching in this community, this is what we are about. And these kids right here represent the very best part of that. So, thank you so much for what you've done for them and all the support you've given. And let's have cake. All right. It' be right outside the door. The cakes right outside more meeting. So, going on down our list, we've got number two, approval of the minutes from the April 14th, 2025 board meeting. I move to approve the April 14th, 2025 school board minutes. Second, the approval of the April 24th
01314 April 14, 2025 has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? No. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Number three, prioritize the agenda. Mr. Drill, I think now that we've worked with the valictorians, we can go right down the list. Dynamite. Then that takes us to the reports. A superintendent report. Mr. Drill. Good evening. Um, welcome guys to the May board meeting. Uh, we uh spent time earlier this evening going g going over the 2526 budget. Thank you for getting that uh initially approved. Um as we discussed uh the last couple of hours uh the board or the budget for next year will go much tighter uh than it has been in recent years. uh we did not grow like we had the previous seven years uh to
014to hold that that line as mean means that essentially we have uh flat revenue coming in along with that right the PERS conversation that we had the retirement conversation for all families that's going to shoot up costwise and then uh just the leave the cost of leaves um this was a year where it was a record uh it was a wonderful record that we had I don't know it felt like 297 babies but we had about 20 it felt across the district. But that meant there was a lot of people out on leave and if they had paid time, that means at one point we were paying for 12 extra positions across the the the district. We did not budget for that that many. So, uh with all that said, uh the budget got passed
015this evening, at least initially. Uh but we are in a place where we're going to need to be a whole lot tighter next year. Uh we have a full school year. We are not cutting any um positions. However, we are using uh funding from our reserves uh to make sure we get through the process. So, we are going to need to pay attention carefully. We are going to need to watch our budget and make sure uh that um if we need to spend on it, then we'll we'll talk about it. Uh we've already worked with our administrators. They know that uh budget tightening is coming. If we lose somebody through attrition, we'll need to evaluate and see whether or not we need that continue to have that position and go from there. So um that's
016different from the from the last six or seven years with the growth uh that we've had. So um at one level um financially it makes it more difficult. At another level the pause from not having to grow fast uh is also good. So there there's a balance to that in the process. Uh I also made note that our student numbers are have been consistent. Um normally over the course of the year, you know, you start kind of high, it kind of goes up till about Christmas time and then it starts to taper off. This started a little bit lower and just stayed the same all the way across which was really unique. Uh again, 17 full years of doing this job and uh you know eight or nine in the high school as the B
017and the principal. Um that those numbers are really unique for Cascade. Um which is good. I think there's stability. Um please always remember that there is somewhere between a 9 to 12% mobility rate in our district. So people move in and out of this area that often. So that's unique to hold that number of kids across that period of time. Um unfortunately last year we had an average higher number. So that means the state gave us the same amount of money this year as they did last year with rollup cost. That means it's less. So we need to deal with that. And then finally just a reminder uh Mr. Rasmuson invited us uh before and he'll invite us again that before you guys meet the next time we'll have already had graduation for the class
018of 2025. Uh that is June 4th, Wednesday at 7 o'clock out here on Feder Rico Field. Um we've done that for the last 10 or 12 years now. I've gone to something. We have not had it rain yet. It's been close. Uh we had a COVID year where it rained and we were moving kids through one at a time, two at a time, but that that full participation uh graduation, we have not had that yet. And we'd like you to be here about 6:30 and we'll get you up on the stage. You'll be shaking uh graduates hands. Any questions? I have a just a quick question and of course this is not going to happen but what is going to happen if we have rain and we plow forward in the rain. We're out in
019the rain. Yes. There's no moving inside. No, we don't have enough space inside and has been tradition that people bring as many family members as they want to graduation. Um we when we went way back in the day when we did it at the armory uh we said the same thing. Bring as many people as you want. That place filled up to the rafters. It turned to 110 degrees in about two hours. Um, that was hot. So, outside here, uh, it's been a wonderful thing, but if it rains, it rains. And so, I get really worried about grandma and the walker, right? But, um, right now the long long term says no rain that night. So, I'm hoping that's true. We'll see. Any other questions? Mr. Dr. I, I have one quick question about the
020the student numbers. I realize you said there's some mobile some people that are mobile in the district. Outside of that, is there a trend of where people are going? If they're leaving our district, are they going to other districts? Are all districts seen a decrease? What's Well, you know, most districts um have seen a decrease partially initially because after co people said they didn't want to go to public school, but the reality now is that there are fewer students, right, across the state for less kids. Yes. So, as I said earlier tonight, right, second grade through 12th grade at Cascade, every grade starts with the number two. So, there's 200 and some odd kids in every grade. In kindergarten, it's 193 or in first grade, it's 193. In kindergarten, it's like 155. So, we will
021see an increase from kindergarten to first grade. We always do. A number of families have their kindergartner go with them or they're doing homechool or they're doing something with their local church. Um, lots of them will see that increase. We'll have to watch and see what that increase looks like, but there are fewer babies and and the state of Oregon's talked about that and reminded us of that for the next couple years anyway. Okay. Any other questions? Nope. All right. Thank you, Mr. Drill. Going on finance director's report, Mr. Per. Well, thank you folks. Thank you for a very good budget committee meeting earlier today. I um I brought a copy of the financial report for you and I thought we'd just go over real briefly some of the numbers where to see and find
022some of the numbers that we are discussing that we discussed earlier and some of the things that we want you to keep a really close eye out on next year um starting in July. The first number I want to draw your attention to is in A1 um cell A1 which is in the upper left hand side that's 5.6 6 million. That's the beginning fund balance for this year, the one that started. And that amount of money was over the amount of bud money we budgeted for that. And the budgeted amount is sell one. And that one was over that by $852,000. So that's the starting money. Next year, that number is going to be $4 million. And um and hopefully we check that by looking at cell L19 way in the bottom right. And right
023now that cell is running about $3.9 million and that we're hoping to get that to four by the end of the year. And these um estimates were made that are on this report were made based on last year's percentage of budget expended in the last two months of the year. So the fact that we're, you know, identifying this as an issue, we're making some changes. Some of the budget cuts that the departments um took on currently uh just today, those things are going to contribute positively to that bottom line. So I think we're going to be in okay shape and we're going to start the year as budgeted. So I just wanted to highlight that. uh uh but next year will require some fiscal dis discipline certainly by staff but also by board as from
024an oversight standpoint. Those are the numbers you want to look at come December next year when you know just kind of checking on progress and seeing how things are going. Um as I mentioned I think that's about all I have for my uh board report. It was mostly focused on some of the stuff that I presented earlier. Uh we're going to keep a real close eye on um PERS um uh bond opportunities for us. Uh that's probably the most short-term thing that we can improve on. And then of course we're going to be waiting on state uh numbers. And if there's any changes that happen that is up or down from budget, we'll let you know as soon as we get that information. Is there any questions for me? So I don't have a question,
025but I guess I'd like to say this out loud so Rupaul hears this. Is can we maybe Mr. drill or if we can get it on our agenda. Six months from now, if we could have some kind of a budget meeting more than just a a so we can talk about we know where we're at right now. In six months from now, it might be a good idea for us all to say and maybe have the budget committee again like we talked about and I'll give credit to to John. This was his thought and I'm just sharing it out loud so I'm sorry to steal your thunder here. Um I think it'd be wise for us all to sit down again and say where are we at? Where are we going? What does it look
026like? And do we need to make any changes halfway through the process instead of absolutely waiting until we get to the end to say, "Oh, nuts. We're at a cliff." Yep. Let's Oregon budget law does allow you to convene the budget committee at any time the the board sees that. And so, Mr. Droll, could we maybe look at doing that six months from now and bringing everybody back to the table? Yep. I think that would be wise. And again, Mr. Remy, thank you for that. Yeah, I agree. That's that would be some good practice, right? Yeah. because as you said, it's we've got we need to be very wise of of what we're doing financially and um I think it'd be in our best interest to have that discussion um partway through the year. Completely
027agree. Tread carefully. Any changes what we're doing? Yep. Completely agree. All right. Any other questions or comments? No. Good. All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Fer. Um 5C is high school principal report. Mr. Rasmusen again, nice job here earlier and thank you Thank you. It's the that group of kids is outstanding as most of the kids in our school are. Um just a couple things I want to highlight off the board uh report. I do want to publicly thank Donna and um Josh Schnep uh for 11 straight years now they have run the car show and if you were on this camp anywhere near this campus on Saturday, you were in a traffic jam and that is because there were over 457 registered vehicles for this car show. And there
028were more than that who just showed up and just parked and started showing their cars. So there were hundreds and if not thousands of people here. Um and they have raised dollars for our senior class for 11 straight years. And they do it all for free. They they just put in the time, they put in the effort and uh they collaborate with the senior parents uh all night party group. Um and uh they just put in a ton of effort. So publicly like to thank them. Um they've done an outstanding job with that and we appreciate them greatly. As Mr. Job mentioned, uh, graduation is the fourth. We would love for you to be a part of that if you would like to be. Um, it's a great event and seeing our community gather together,
029the 2500 or 3,000 people that are there is is really fun to see. Um, so and we pray for no rain, but we'll have some ponchos for the graduates. So, no, no, everybody else is on their own, okay? But they got to they got to look good. It's their day. So, anyway, um, anything else off the board report that I mentioned there? Lots of good things happening. We're increasing the number of college classes or college credit dual dual credit classes we offer. Um, kids are kids are gaining more credits here and going into college and being able to finish in three or three and a half years. Um, which saves them money, helps them move into the next uh chapter of their lives, whatever they want to do. So, um, we have outstanding instructors here.
030The partnering partnering with Wam Promise um, and they partner with Western Oregon University and OIT. We're adding a couple classes there. We still have our connections with Schmecka. We're offering classes through them with college credit. Now, we have 52 kids are going to earn college credit this year in algebra, college algebra. We've never offered that before. So, that's outstanding because almost every major requires a full year of college algebra, college math, and uh they're getting that here on campus for 30 bucks as opposed to whatever you'd pay for college. So, it's a great it's a great deal. So, we're thankful for that and we're going to continue pushing that and uh good things happening. Mr. Rest, about how much money does the allnight party raise? Well, it varies yeartoear based on the parent group. Um,
031we basically are the bank for that group. We kind of guide them and help them in their fundraising activities and kind of say, "Hey, that's going to be a good one or we probably shouldn't do that or those kind of things." But, uh, they groups raise anywhere between 30 and $60,000. It's a fair amount of money. It's a fair amount of money. the the car show itself when the weather's nice, if the weather's nice, the car show makes money and uh it's well over $20,000 one day. So, yeah, it's incredible. Um so, um it's a great thing. Um we're probably going to actually maybe look to diversify because the parent groups are doing great great money raising or fundraising. So, uh, the we'll probably look at how can we benefit Cascade in some other ways
032as well, um, with some of that money um because at some point once you pay for the venue, you take the kids to all night parties, you know, what else do you do? So, um, with the money, but it's outstanding. It really is. Okay, for sure. For sure. Any other questions? Nope. Thank you, Mr. Appreciate it. All right. 5D high school assistant principal report and that's going to be Miss Wisa. Miss Lisa, welcome. Hey everybody. So you guys have my report in front of you. My report this month is a lot of shout outs and thank yous. Was Erin really last time I was here presenting for Mr. Rasmus and we were talking about the career fair a bit and your question was last year you were overwhelmed. So much stuff going on. Why did
033you how did we do it again? And really it's all the people that are in this. So, I wanted to shout out specifically to everybody from our maintenance department who was in uh you know in flaggers vests out there helping with traffic control to Leila Pet who's making posters of all of the signs and welcoming to Tom Pachic who was outside running around getting his steps in for the month which is probably about accurate for all of us that day. So, it was really great to be a part of that and all of it wouldn't have been possible without all of the partners outlined in here. So, I just wanted to make sure my whole board report is just shout outs to some awesome things that people are doing. And so, um, one of the
034programs I really want to focus on is our health services program right now. Stephanie Cox has been doing some amazing things in her program. I talk about her and partnerships with different industries, but one of the things that she did last year received a grant and she has created her own simulation lab for what it looks like in a medical like setting. So, she has all of the medical bed. She is teaching kids how to do blood pressure. Had probably six of them coming in during one of her classes the other day and doing backto-back blood pressure checks just to see and have them fine-tune their skills. We're all learning. My blood pressure was a lot varied that day, but it was a great experience for everybody. So, she's doing just some fantastic things, including
035offering medical terminology this year for college credit, which hasn't happened before. So, as we're focusing on college credit opportunities, I'm excited to see where that continues to grow. and um she started partnering up with different um with Sanm Hospital on different endeavors and Family Dentistry and actually has students being offered jobs after graduating for just the amount of work that they're putting in and how they're doing on that. Um I also want to give a shout out to our manufacturing, construction, and automotive. We've started a new partnership with Riverbend Materials this year and we have three students that are out interning right now in an introduction to heavy equipment and CDL program. So, if they're interested, one of them really wants to go in to get his CDL and start truck driving. And it gives
036the 40 hours of the in-classroom work, and they're volunteering all of their time to do that. And so, they're taking an hour out of their day every day, 5 days a week to work with three high schoolers to give them all of those opportunities. So, um I'm excited to see where that continues to grow in that process. And so, a lot of those types of shoutouts that are in here. I work with some amazing people and this whole thing was just really wanted to honor them. So, if you have any questions about my board report or anything, I'm happy to answer. I was just going to say I popped into the career the career fair and I it was so impressive. The kids were excited and the vendors were excited and and you do a
037great job. Thank you. I appreciate it. It was a lot of fun, a lot of work and a lot of good time, but it's been a really good thing to be a part of. So, I'll ask you a question. This is a curveball question. You ready? Oh, fantastic. Okay. So, we've got the kids that are going to college that have the uh the college credits that they get. We've got kids that do the trades like the health services, kids going into the military, kids that aren't going into college or trades or the military. Are they job ready when they leave high school? And if not, how do we reach those kids? So, we work with So, Tom Pitachic, our college and career readiness coordinator, he meets with all of our juniors and seniors every year.
038He's on his third round of meeting with seniors and those who are unsure about what they're doing or just ready to enter in the workforce, he's meeting with them and they're the ones he's working with even more so right now. Like, where are we looking? what are we doing? How are we on track? Our counseling department has done a wonderful job with that as well, finding those opportunities for anybody who maybe still isn't sure. So, um through the ESD, we have partnerships of where they've done resume building with some of our students. We've had job shadows and internship opportunities that come up and a lot of ways where um with the network of individuals we've created through these events, it's really nice. Say, I have a student who's really interested in this. Can you come
039and meet with them? And we've had some industries that have come in and just sat down and had small industry chats about what they do or summer work experience opportunities. And so it's been really great to do that. But due to the work of people like Tom who are sitting down and and our counseling department sitting down and saying, "What are you interested in? Do you want to work inside? Do you want to work outside? How can we delve into that more?" So really just trying to figure out what that looks like for them and making sure that they feel supported afterwards. Thank you, Brad. You know, one of the things we're trying to accomplish over the last few years, we've I think we've done a better job, which is meeting where they're at, right?
040So, um Tom Pachic, who was a longtime wood shop teacher here, right, wanted to retire but still wanted to work, so he works part-time. Mr. Rasmus and him and Tony sat down and they had a conversation about how do we engage those kids to try to figure out what they're doing, where they're going. Uh it's easy to motivate the validators and solidarians. They're just going to go do it, right? uh the CTE uh group of folks. They're like, "Hey, I'm really passionate about that. I want to get involved, but what about those other kids?" So, you have that Pete also asked for and advocated for a third counselor. So, now we have a third counselor at the high school along with this coordinator, along with CTE, along with AVID, right? We're trying to figure out
041ways to meet where every kid is at at um at their level. And not do it, but we're off. It's there. They want it. I I was there when we just couldn't do that before and so these guys have done a great job of wrapping around kids and saying, "Hey, we're going to get it done." Nice. Excellent. Perfect. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Any other questions? Thank you everybody. All right. Thanks so much. Moving on. We've got the junior high principal report and that's going to be assistant principal Mr. Nolan. Thanks principal. Sorry. Oh, sorry. I'd also like to thank Tony. I visited the career fair and turns out I have a I missed my calling as a tattoo artist. So I still have I can still go back and maybe get trained and
042so Mr. Dill, we'll have to talk maybe later. I'll come to your to your place. Okay. Uh so I also just wanted to hit a couple highlights as uh behavior report in May isn't always the most exciting thing to be looking at. Um, but we also in the junior high set up a lot of great incentives for the kids to reward them for great behavior and great grades. Um, so we continually work at that and uh work with our students. U Mrs. Leday does a great job. Uh, we call them jailbreaks. So kids either with no behavior issues going on or no Fs get to go and spend some time outside in one of the sunny afternoons. So, just doing a great job of rewarding. The teachers do a great job of making sure that
043kids know right where they're at so they can work toward making it out there and getting better grades and being rewarded for their behavior as well. Um, another any questions about behavior before I move on to athletics? Oh, there's a lot of information on there, a lot of historical data. Well, I have a question. Yes. What's the difference between your new plan and the renewed plan? So for the 504s. Yeah. So that's someone who might have gone through the SST process to that might need a little bit of help or someone that's just getting a new diagnosis that needs some accommodations. Okay. So that's they don't need specially designed instruction. So when they go through the SSD process, they don't necessarily need as much help. So they kind of end up in the 504 realm
044where they still could use some accommodations to help them access the education. It's a different plan. Yes. Okay. Than what? Okay. Yes. So a new plan. It means they could have either not had a plan before or it or maybe they're they did have a an IEP, an educational individual education plan before and then they're coming into the 504 world which they're managed by our counselors in the junior high. So, and then the renewals are maybe they started off out in elementary school or they did that in another district and then they moved to us and then we continually meet with parents on a yearly basis and we could meet more depending on the needs of the student and if they have changing medical diagnoses as well. We can discuss that as well as far
045as like how often we need to meet. Uh okay. Uh our athletic participation is still uh it's not our highest in the last few years but it's second highest. So um we still have a lot of kids participating. Uh compared to the other schools in our leagues, we have some of the highest participation as compared to them. And some of those schools are bigger schools than we are. Some are smaller, but we have really high uh participation in our football teams alone. We had 40 and 40 last year. We typically schedule uh A teams and B game A for A teams and B teams. And Mr. drill has done a great job of approving us when we need more coaches to get more playing opportunities for our kids. And then as far as within our
046league, other schools that have multiple teams, we're able to schedule with them. So, it's been really nice uh with our transportation and getting them there and getting referees and officials uh which have since recovered after COVID. We had a shortage, but we're able to get those now. and transportation is all kind of rolling and uh we have a lot of great athletic opportunities for our kids in our buildings. Um and we're expecting to have to continue high participation throughout our school for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. Uh something new coming up as a league we've been monitoring, girls wrestling is a h quick, it's growing really quickly, probably the fastest other than maybe high school girls flag football. Uh, girls wrestling is super fast growing sport right now. So, we've been tracking the number of
047female athletes that we've had wrestle in the last few years. Um, and it's been growing as a league every year, including in our building. Uh, last year alone, we had 25% of the wrestlers were female. So, we voted as a league to pilot and next year we're going to have probably one of the first junior high girls wrestling league. So, we'll have a separate wrestling for girls and for boys. So, that'll be pretty awesome. uh to be kind of on the forefront of that. So then like the boys, they can do wrestling in the winter one season and then winter two season do basketball and vice versa for boys and girls. So we can still use the gym space and the mat space. Um it's pretty great opportunity for our kids and in our in
048our school in our district and then also in our league as well. So any questions on that? Any other questions about any of the board report? So, I'm I'm gonna ask you since we're down to the referral part. Is Okay. It appears that we're trending down on our referrals that are going out. Do we have something we attribute that to? Is it just good luck? Is it the weather? What do we What's our decrease in referrals as far as this year compared to previous years? Yeah. Well, the I think the first thing we have going for us is we have a really great staff and that probably was similar to last year. U so that's the first thing they work really well with kids and then also the three groups of kids that we have
049right now top to bottom are really great groups of kids to work with and we have really supportive parents. So when you have those combined with three groups in a row um and when you say group that that's a grade like a yeah a grade level. So both sixth, seventh and eighth grades, right? Is there anything we need to be doing different or helping that would further that? Uh I I being someone who's from a couple other districts that are nearby, uh I really like where we're at and how we support kids and the support that we get from you guys uh to really hold a line and have high expectations for our kids both behaviorally and academically. Uh I so from where I'm sitting is that someone who deals with behavior every day. Um
050I like what we're doing. We see a lot of great results and we get movement from kids. Um, and some some it's not their year and we're hoping that down the road, maybe their freshman or sophomore year, they'll get it figured out. But for the most part, we we see we see improvements with our kids. Uh, we have great, uh, like I said, great staff members to be able to work with them and connect with them, uh, get them to school, get them interested in things, whether it's athletics or clubs. I mean, if you look at the list of our clubs and how many kids that we have uh participating in those as well, it's it's pretty amazing what our kids have in front of them to be able to to buy into. So, and
051I won't hold you to this, but like I'm looking at this year in the eighth grade, for example, currently there's 49 eighth graders that have had referrals in your if you had to guess how many of those are repeat offenders. I mean, are those That's not That's not 49. That's 49 referrals total. But that's not 49 kids. Right. Right. How many of those 49 are from the same, you know, or six kids doing or those 49 different kids? No, it's not 40. It I would say that would be the high30s. So, we'll probably have a couple high flyers, but then and then Yeah. And then you have kids that make a few mistakes here and there. Sure. So, yeah. Okay. That's great. Okay. Any other questions? No. All right. All right. Thank you. Thank you
052very much. You Moving on is elementary principles reports. We're going to start with Cloverdale. Hello Cloverdale. Hello. Okay. Um so I also am kind of like Tony where I'm doing a lot of shoutouts. Um but we have two uh staff members who are going to retire this year. Tina Gilbert and Betty Ishy. Um they are truly fantastic who go way above and beyond. And I know, you know, all teachers do, but these two staff members are just I just felt they just needed some acknowledgement. Um, what they do in their classroom, what they do for our community, and what they've done for Cloverdale and just for Cascade is truly remarkable. So, I just felt like giving them a shout out because retirement I it's leaving a huge gap. Um, and it's going to be really
053hard to fill their spots. So, anyway, just wanted to shout out to them. Um, just a couple updates that we are midst state testing. Things are going really great. Um, our kids are really trying to um, show that it's hard work. Um, like our motto is it's not luck, it's hard work. And they really are doing a lot of work in their state testing. They're doing great. Um, also I'm excited because the seal um, the Salem relays are back. It used to be like kids country relays. It was JC relays. That was before last year we didn't have it and this year it's back. It's personally one of my favorites because my kids always participated in it. But it's just a fun time where, you know, Marian County all gets together and I'm just excited
054that Cloverdale and Cascade will be represented on that. So excited about that. Um, another thing, we've got lots of community here. So, I love it because, um, I really wanted to thank Mrs. Auxburgger. She's like the best counselor in the entire world. Reason why is she's focused so much on our community outreach. Uh she has done a fatherdaughter dance which is the most beautiful thing you'll ever see when you see little girls looking up at their daddies or their bonus daddies or even bonus mommies who come. Um but Jessica goes out of her way to just put on this amazing event. Our staff decorate and the you know the the community support has been huge. It really has been huge and we keep getting more and more families. We just finished up with the mother
055um son field day fund and that was great. And I put a picture in there. It's funny because Dr. Dyer's wife is like right in the front. You can see she's doing the tug-of-war and you can just see they just do a lot of fun things to, you know, enjoy time with their kids. Um, and Jessica and I decided just this past weekend that, you know, because they're doing such great things and our community is just coming together. We decided to add a father son event that we'll do next year and then also um a mother daughter cuz I only had daughters. So, I just felt like, you know, I would want to go and do something with my daughter. So, we did that. And then we also decided to do some um summer family
056recess nights where just over the summertime it's like just grab a lawn chair, come on, hang out and just just be a community. Um it's such a small community and so it's just trying to highlight that and to bring everybody together even in the summer would be great for a free event, right? How cool is that? Um and I'm sure you've heard like our field trip that we've done is the overnight. It we did have to cancel the overnights, but we do have some really great things planned already. We already have Pioneer Village. It's out in Damascus. It's going to be like a really good learning educational experience. It's all about, you know, the Oregon Trail. Um, we're also talking about going to a to Atoria to go to the Aster column and to see
057a lot of the Louiswis and Clark expedition. And then also just going onto a beach where Louiswis and Clark ended their expedition. So, even though we've had to change it, we're really excited to find out there's lots of other things that are close by that would still focus on the learning of the Oregon Trail. So that's kind of it in my report. Any questions? Yeah. I want to tag on to something you said about the ladies that are retiring. Yes. It's true all across the district that those are two prime examples of people who are truly gifted educators. Uh but beyond that, they're just super high quality humans. and uh we we benefit from highquality humans every day across this district. I agree with you. I I know that they're both going to be watching
058this and so I think for them to hear you say that and acknowledging that is going to be really huge. Um I don't think teachers get acknowledged enough for the hard work they do. Um it's it's exhausting. It really is an exhausting job. and just to know how much that they put their heart and soul because nine times out of 10 we put other people's children before our own and that can be hard right and so just having that acknowledgement is really important so thank you for saying that they're pretty important any other questions I have a question but same thing as John um having known both of those teachers for so long it's just you know that they're going to be missed your your culture there will change uh just by the absence of
059those two those to educators and uh you know such a professional abilities that they have about caring for kids and making sure that what needs to be taught gets taught and then on top of that right being able to share the extra John like you talked about. So um you know those two are going to be definitely missed in that building. They're going to be missed and we are going to have to scramble to find some good ones. So pressure on you to find some really good places. All right, I'll take that pressure. Any other questions? No. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. F2 is Turner Elementary. And please add Jean Marie to your list because he's been at our district since 1999. And we're having an open house at Turner at 3:00 that everyone's invited
060to to acknowledge him. 3:00 which day? 3:00 this Friday at Turner Elementary. Weather's going to be great. Sun's going to come out and we're going to enjoy our pavilion. All right. We can hope. And since this is the last and final board report of the year, I do want to acknowledge the contributions that Kelly Cromwell has made to Turner. It has been by staff's saying repeatedly the best year ever. And I attribute that to Kelly and our partnership. So, it's been really great and it's nice to finally know kind of what's going on. So, it took some time. So, thank you for that. And I do want to acknowledge, you know, when you've taught for 20 when you've been in education for 28 years, you fantasize about things. And surprisingly, it's not about retirement. It's
061not about going to school and giving the kids and the staff a day off. It's about ruling OD just for like a day or a week. And if I ruled OD for a day or a week, I would put the complete emphasis on education, not on the minutes spent on ELA and not on some of the things they spend their time on, but on project-based learning because our test scores are coming in and they're solid, but it's not because of those minutes. It's not unpacking your standards, although important, but it's getting kids excited about learning. It's creating projects like our fourth grade wax museum where they're giving the kids are given biographies and they can't wait to rush in from recess and read. And this projectbased learning starts with us at kindergarten. And I want
062to turn over the rest of my time for an incredible, fantastic kindergarten educator who taught kinders all day long and is still here. and then and because she orchestrated an incredible project for our kinders this year that I know they're going to remember forever. So, Jessica, turn it over to you. Hi. Uh I'm new to this, so please bear with me. Um I did I broke down the whole writing process and the publishing process for 5-year-olds. So, this is actually the book that we had published um that I would love to pass around and kind of show We went through from the get-go brainstorming to different ideas of what we would want to write about. And at 5 years old, you would be shocked of how many ideas they really want to write about. So,
063we had settled on when we grow up. And a lot of them, we have future soldiers, police officers, zookeepers, bakers, mothers, fathers, massuses, you name it. And they want to be it. And they really showed that with their writing. So, we kind of broke it down. This was a two-month project, and we went step by step in small groups, working on their handwriting, working on their rough draft, working on having meetings with their manager, which I took on a new role there, became a publishing manager, and we had one-on- ones, and they got to experience what it was to edit their work at 5 years old. things that high schoolers are doing, middle schoolers are doing, and they took it on very enthusiastically. They were excited every day to work on their writing. If we
064didn't do it first thing in the morning, they were asking, "When are we working on our book?" It took a while to get it back. And when we did, we had 100% family buyin as well. This is a wonderful program that I went through with student treasures, and it is free for educators to do. And the only cost was if families wanted to purchase a book. So, we had a 100% family buyin. Every family bought at least one book, if not more, to gift to their families. We did a huge celebration. Every family was present and the kids got to show them and they got a medal. They were official published authors and they were very proud of it and they very well should be. As you can see with the book, you can see
065their hard work truly came through with seeing some of their remarkable writing at five and six in kindergarten. So that was our big project based learning because truly that is what it's all about. They can see at the end what their whole project and their product was. So that's what we did in our kindergarten class. There any questions as others have said can you just back into a little bit what is project based learning? Give us the definition of that. For me, at least in kindergarten, project- based learning is showing them step by step what they're working on and having an end product that they can hold, they can take home, they can show their parents about and become the mini teacher. They look at these projects, these big end results, and they say, "I
066did that. I learned about it." And I can walk away telling you what I learned. It's not just I learned my addition facts. I learned how to write. I learned my site words. It's I learned the publishing process. I learned what it means to be an author. So that's their their project. That's project based learning. Okay. So the bigger picture, seeing the whole the whole process on a bigger picture. Yeah. Okay. And it appears you've got a number of kids that want to be police officers. Yes. Seems I truly do attest that to our wonderful resource officers that come into the school and they create such a positive atmosphere for the kids where they see them and they get excited to see them. So we have quite a few who want to be like them.
067Great. Yeah. So, are there other projectbased learning um courses, classes or projects that that we're doing now? Is this the only project based learning that we've we've done or I mean, can you give me other examples of that? Uh other big ones I've done in my class personally are science-based projects where we go through the whole scientific method. We are creating a hypothesis. Yes, they know what that means. At 5, they go through an experimental process. We test our hypothesis. Why did that happen? They get parts of the a science experiment that they then get to take home and then show their parents and explain to them why they're a scientist today. So, there's other project- based learning that we've done since the fall. Mhm. Wow. Yeah. Really good. The books are awesome. That's really
068neat to be anything. Yes. Have you known you were going to be a teacher your whole life? Yes. Yeah. I came home in kindergarten, told my mom, I'm going to be the teacher one day and I stuck with it. We our commitment here is to do everything we possibly can to keep you happy in your classroom for a very long time. Then keep Iverson and Cromwell with me and I'll be happy. We We are committed to that. Being part of this community truly has changed my life for the better. So that's my goal for the kids then. Thank you. Any other questions? No. Thank you. Those books are amazing. Here's your other one. Thank you for that. All right, moving on. Is G plant operation managers report? Mr. Lule, welcome. Good. I gave you all
069a list of few of the items that we had worked on. It kind of looks the same about every every so many months, but we're just basically updating of a lot of our equipment like water heater boilers and the HVAC and we had an intrusion alarm and fire alarm and those types of things that we need to keep keep in order. So, that's uh that's basically what most of the items are. There's a few other ones on there, but I won't go through all of them. And the the final thing was the fencing that's going to Turner, kind of a protection fence for the kids to keep them away from that open area of the creek. And it'll connect to the existing fence right there by the bridge. So that'll be that'll pretty much close
070off that whole corner of the playground. So it'll be a lot safer. And that's all scheduled, ready to go, just waiting for the fence company to come in and put it in for us. Is that going to be a summer project? It may happen before that. Okay. Just depends on how busy they get. They're always busy, but we're got the okay from the city and because it's in the flood plane. So, it was we're able to keep it out of that little section that's not affected. So, is there any questions on the rest of the list or been busy? Yeah. Got a lot of good help. Any questions? No. No. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you all. All right. Moving on to six, discussion and communication. Let's go back to personnel. So before
071you do that, Mr. Rasp like would like to add one thing if that's okay, Mr. Chair. Let slide this time. Hey, with the moving from room to room and getting things reset, I forgot to do this. I brought it over and left it out there. Um, our athletic department, uh, Mr. Rise and primarily Mr. Hedrik has put together a something to promote reading to our our, uh, schools. And reading, it says reading is a hit. It's a bunch of our current athletes and we have produced uh for each of the elementary libraries, the district office and the junior high. So we have a little gift something that we want to keep doing to help know that we are building student athletes and not just athletes. I'm trying to emphasize that. So Mr. Rise, if you
072see him or Mr. Hedrickk see him, it was his it was his idea. So you have those and you want to take those elementary principles, take one for your building tonight. Okay. Thank you. That's a great idea. Thank you, Mr. Rasm. All right. Now, we're on to 6A1, new staff recommendations. Mr. Drew. Yep. So, someday, all too soon, starting in July, we'll have a HR director back and they'll be able to do that. So, good thing. Um, you have in front of you, uh, ironically, the, uh, hiring of our new uh, district uh, director of human resources, Jay Weekes, will start July 1st. uh coming from Crook County, right? Former principal, VP of multiple places and has done HR for the last three years. Uh the team together uh picked him as as our choice
073and we're excited to have him come back across the the mountain and back over to this side, the wet side as he calls it, but he was over here for a number of years before that. So, we're excited about that. And in certified staff for 2526, Miss Johnson was able to elect two veteran staff members to help her in special education. questions. Questions? No, no, no questions. Okay, moving on to 6B is class size recommendations. Right. So 6B has got your class size recommendation. We talked a little bit about this in the budget or the board budget committee tonight. Those are essentially the same short of five more in the high school and five more in the junior high. That's it. Um those continue to be the same numbers. That means at the elementary level,
074particularly K and one, you have smaller class sizes three through four. Three through five are a little bit bigger. And then the seventh and sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, it's a little bit bigger yet. High school's about the same as it was before. So these are the same numbers we looked at last year. Sure. Five more students at the high school, five more students at the junior high. Same numbers all the way across. Other than that, the rest are the same. We do not live up to those numbers at the moment because if we did, we'd have a lot more kids. But those are our numbers that we have that we hold as uh that's the number we can't go past. As I mentioned earlier, we have a number of grades and a number of
075schools where we are full. So, we cannot have an interd district transfer come. So, we're full. Okay. Any questions? Any thoughts on that? I'm not sure I'm ready to sign off on that one yet. Then I want to maybe just think about that one. The only thing is if we stay with that, um, we start making those decisions June 1st. So, if if you don't want to do that, that's fine. But that's going to push us back a whole another month. What Erin, what um concerns do you is there is there something in there that's I I don't know. I haven't really just based off of earlier today. I don't know. This is a big deal and I don't know if I want to just brush this one off and just say I'm I'm okay
076with it without putting thought into it. If we added students like we talked about a little bit in in the budget meeting, right? Um that means that there is room but in certain places we don't want to add like for example we don't want to add a Cloverdale in a specific grade because they essentially have one and a half teachers per grade. There's nine teachers over over six grades. So you don't want to add more there in specific cases, right? And same with Turner. They've got three three teachers per grade. So in one grade level if you if you take a look they're under but another grade level they're high. At Armsville fourth grade I believe, right, Zack? 124. Yeah. 24 divided by four that's 31. So that would be a grade that we would
077say there are there are zero ads in the process is are you thinking of wanting them lower? No. Higher. Higher. Okay. There's But you're saying there's already room for that. Yeah. And and there's always ability for you to come back and say you'd like to raise those. At least for now. We can. Okay. That's up to you guys. You'd like to see that back. So we can approve it for now and that'll help us move forward. Okay. But we can always revisit it if you want to revisit it. If we want to reopen it. Yeah. As long as three of you are are prepared for that. As long as that's on the table that we can revisit it later. Okay. Okay. Okay. Good. Are we good on 6B? C table. Yep. And so we're going
078to move on to 6C for the out ofstate trip for the Cascade Cheer. And at this point, I'm going to ask that we table this motion total another day. And Mr. Dyer, were you Dr. Dyer? And yes, is that something you can look into us for? um safety type issues and get back to us on that trip. Yes. Thank you. So, we're going to table that one for now. Um 7 A is staff resignations. Yep. So, 7A, you've got three different folks. Um our registered nurse, we're already interviewing and you have a finalist. Yep. Okay. You already have a finalist for that. And uh we have a teacher at Cloverdale. So add to the two retirements plus another teacher at Cloverdale moving on to try something different for herself at at a young at a
079young age trying to teach across the ocean internationally. So that would be interesting for her. And uh for those of you that don't know right tonight was Mr. Pillar's last night as a budget uh as our budget director with regard to a budget hearing. Um thank God he's here till the end of June. Um, so, uh, I appreciate that and would like to thank Scott for all the years of service and keeping us financially stable. We are interviewing on Friday for his replacement. Any questions? Well, he won't be here at the next meeting. He will he will be at the June meeting. Okay. Won't be here in July. He'll be busy. But good. Any questions? No. All right. Then moving on, we've got public comment. So, um, please note it is especially important to remember
080that we all model the way for our students and we ask that you share your thoughts in a respectful way. The board chair will ask you to stop speaking if you are not able to adhere to these guidelines. Audience time is not intended as a form for public debate. At this time, we will have the public comment folks um, stand up. I think you're both here. We're not going to turn on our cameras. You'll have three minutes to speak and we ask that you refrain from discussing students or using personal identifiable information such as names or occupations. Guests are only allowed to address the board one time during the meeting. With that being said, I believe we've got two individuals that are here to see us. Right. All right. Go for it. And just as
081courtesy for everyone's time, let's try to keep that to the three minutes. And just so you're both aware, this is not going to be a Q&A. We're not going to turn it into a debate or a discussion, but you are certainly welcome to express your opinion. Okay. Um, good evening. Uh, for those who don't know me, my name is Olen West. Um, my son at Cloverdale, who's in fourth grade. Um, so last week we got informed through Parent Square that their end of the year multi-day Oregon Trail field trip was cancelled. Um, this trip had been planned for over a year. It's been promoted. It's been fundraised all year long. So, needless to say, I had many questions as to why. Um, yeah. So, um, the parent square email that went out, um, was kind
082of hard to understand. The only thing I could really say it was citing safety concerns that this was cancelled. So, I went around and talked to the people who might, you know, be able to give me some answers. you know, building admin, you know, safety director, you know, pe people who could give me some answers. Um, so after talking with everybody, the only reasons that I could come up with as to why this was cancelled really kind of boiled down to, in my eyes, mistrust and fear. Um, mistrust in the kids teacher, mistrust in district employees, mistrust in parent volunteers. um to keep kids safe on an overnight trip. Instead, from what I heard, they were deciding to put their trust in insurance agents that, you know, look at statistics and what's going over in
083other places and how much a claim could cost the district instead of the character of the people tasked with keeping these kids safe. So, in my opinion, this is just was a wrong decision. um if there was a concern for safety, for supervision, then that should have been addressed instead of just cancing the trip. Um now, I know that no amount of debating or arguing is going to change anything. I've worked in school districts way too long to know that that's even a possibility. But what I would like to see is from at least the board is policy or plans put in place. So this doesn't just snowball into middle school. I mean, we already heard that, you know, a trip got tabled just right now be citing safety concerns. So is it going to
084creep up to middle school? Is it going to go up to the high school? I would like to see safeguards put in place to keep that from happening. Okay. Please protect these once in a-lifetime learning experiences that these kids get to go on. that would just help tremendously restoring the trust that you've practically lost with my wife, me, and I'm sure other students. So, Billy, I got to say, oh, sorry. Uh last thing I was also um if it's okay to just ask a blunt question was when the decision for safety was cited was it even suggested or talked to to the teacher before it decided to cancel the trip? I mean it feels like that should have happened. I can tell you that that's not something any of us up here would be able
085to answer for you. Thank you for your time. Hello. Welcome. Hi there. Uh, good evening. My name is Crystal and I have a fourth grader at Cloverdale Elementary. You probably guessed that by now. I have taught my daughter about heroes. How heroes stand in their integrity even when it's hard. They keep their promises and their words have meaning. Sorry about that. Um, we have viewed every teacher in the school worker and administrator as heroes. We take heroes. We It takes heroes to stand up for our kids in this world. all it takes here to teach them and to continue the path. Um, and our heroes have let us down this week. Um, choosing fear and painting a picture that we have a bleak future and they want to believe the world full of monsters. We
086have to stop doing what's right. In recent rushed decision to cancel the overnight trips sets a dangerous precedent that lawyers and insurance companies get to decide how we educate our children. Cutting things that seem risky. What else are they going to cut? This is quicksands. What will they cut next? Uh, shop, sports, of course, anything dealing with animals and drivers ed. That's fling crazy. Um, I'm here to tell you that some of the most powerful power powerful learning experiences are not the safe ones. Educating our children takes courage and backbone to stand up and tell the lawyers and insurance companies, this is what we do here. This is what we do here, and we need to continue. Tell us how to do that. um and not ask them permission to do our jobs because this
087will soften the experience for our kids until they have nothing. Outdoor school and overnight field trips are what we do here and it has been for generations. I don't want to stop that because of this. And it's been um I bet many of you still have memories of outdoor school or overnight trips. I want my kid to have the same education you had. Um uh almost a year ago, the fourth fourth grade class learned about an immersive experience following the organ trail backwards, staying in the footprints where truly brave souls stood. Um in care of an incredible teacher who puts her very soul into this experience. I tell you right now, the risks have not changed for her when she's from when she started planning this trip and she was still ready to stand up
088and that's a hero. Um, there have been lot lists of things required of kids and parents, including training, working long hours, slinging beer and and hot dogs at the stadium for 16 hours straight, serving alcohol, um, hitting up her friends for cans and bottles. We did our part for have this journey and it wasn't a simple field trip, and it wasn't a simple fundraising. I've spent we I've spent more than a decade serving this community as a firefighter paramedic. So, I have a bit of experience with risk and personal liability. Um, and when the risk increases, we train like crazy. We planned like crazy and we showed up anyways. Uh, I hope this school district can show up for our kids because that's the world I want to live in. And according to Abe Lincoln,
089make sure your feet are in the right place and stand firm. And my friends, this could be standing on quicksand. Thank you for your mention. Thank you very much. Any comments, any thoughts? I just I want to say I'm sorry that this has happened to you. It's not right. And and I just it's just a shame that this couldn't be seen earlier in the year before the kids got excited and fun raised and all of that. And another concern that I would have with what you I just heard from you is that the parents heard it or read it on parent square first and that's not right. And I wanted to apologize because there were mistakes made here. Okay. All right. Then um with that being said, we will move on. Nine is resolutions. We
090are at 9A. Resolution regarding well 9A. Okay. Be it resolved, the Cascade Board of Education moves to honor and congratulate the 12 students who have worked hard and achieved extraordinary levels of academic success. These students have been named as the valadictorians and saludiatorans for the Cascade High School class of 2025. Second, resolution regarding recognition of validictorians and saluteans. That's a hard word, I'm sorry. for the Cascade High School class of 2025. Any discussion? Nope. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. 9B. Resolution regarding new staff recommendations. Be it resolved. The Cascade Board of Education moves to approve the hiring of new staff members for the 2526 school year as recommended by the administration. Second. 9B. Resolution regarding new staff recommendations has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? None.
091All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. 9 seat resolution regarding the fall 2025 class size recommendation. Be it resolve the Cascade Board of Education moves to approve the fall 2025 class size recommendations. Second. 9C. Resolution regarding the fall 2025 class size recommendation has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? No discussion. All those in favor signify by saying I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. 9D resolution regarding out of state trip request for Cascade cheer has been tabled. And that is our only resolutions for the evening. Any future agenda items? Mr. Dill? Um we'll need to go back to your T tabled item um after the review has been complete and then after that we're in June, we'll need to wrap up the budget um meeting, right? So you have
092to come back open it up as per Mr. Pillar's conversation and and direction earlier tonight and we can do that during regular Yep. You can open up both at the same time okay that you're good to go. Please be reminded that you've got graduation fourth right Mr. Asmus on the 4th on the 4th 6:30 p.m. Be there be there rain rain coats or not? Yep. All right. Oh I think the stage is parking passes we'll get pass. Okay, I have a question. Yes, sir. In terms of unpalatable things creeping around culture and through the district and um actually putting the the behaviors that go with the definition of hero into place. Who is the contact for not just for this particular case that we heard about tonight, but the the principal that is it is
093applying all across the culture and and our school district. Who's the contact to make sure we don't lose track of that and that we so when you when you call PACE you can get all kinds of people to answer it. The the fortunate part about you know as old as I am is that I know Dave Harvey pretty well who's in charge of PACE. So, I have um we've been playing phone tech, but um I would like I'm gonna have a sit down with him, have a conversation about what that looks like. Um as I met with the parents and I appreciated what they said. They they did a great job coming in. Um Olen does a great job coming in and today just got to meet with a great mom, talk about stuff today.
094And you know, the conversation about u making sure that we don't change what we try to do, right? Uh is important. So, um, sitting down with, uh, with Lisa, our attorney for ever, right, who's done 30 years of school law, um, is another opportunity for us to say, how do we continue to work that? This is, you know, it's John, it's been something that um we continue to try to do and uh you know, I appreciate uh Julia had a number of sleepless nights and, you know, concerns and and worries about how this was going to go. Um she, you know, we we we celebrated Betty issue tonight. Uh she's the teacher that does all this and put all this stuff together. Um, you know, the irony of our safety person is that he used
095to be the principal at at Cloverdale and and helped build this trip, right? And for all of our staff that sat down and had that conversation about how to do it, they were particularly the administrators were it was really hard. It was a hard decision. It's hard for me. But Dr. Dyer is probably our contact is our point person from our end of it. Yes. But when you reach out elsewhere, he has other contacts as well because he is a safety person. And you know, the conversations with both parents, um, it was great. They were they made really good points about having us take a look at and be reminded about what we're trying to accomplish. So that's that's what we're going to continue to do. Take a look at And Mr. Drill. Yeah. Will
096you keep us posted on their trips, how that's all going, the day trips that they were going to do? Miss Miss Julia will we'll do that for sure. We'll keep track what we do. Any other questions? Anything else? Really quick on that. If any of you guys want to call contact me, please call me and let me know. We'll do answer any questions for you. Yes. All right. I think on that note, meeting adjourned. Thanks everybody. Have a good evening.